here's a thought for you to completely disregard:
i've tried to become a vegetarian once or twice in my life; it didn't stick. it's not that i am so in love with eating dead animals that i couldn't not do it, but it's that i couldn't remove something that had become so normative in my life.
two thoughts came to my mind when i thought about this scenario:
one: when God created life, everything was in this perfect state of shalom, where all relationships were healthy and wide. now, by all relationships i mean people to God; people to people; people to creation. now, please correct me if i'm wrong, but the goal of a christian life should be to do our best to bring our current life back to that state of shalom; we should be trying to spread God's love to all people. earlier today, i thought that exact thought: "...to all people". shalom is more than just people to people; why have we overlooked creation! unless there was some way that adam and eve ate animals without having to kill them, (death wasn't around until the apple, right?) we can assume that they were vegitarians. now, i realize that our goal in life is to be like Jesus, and not Adam, but i hope you can see what i'm trying to say.
two: why is it so hard for us to give something up? what kind of pathetic people are we?! i can't even give up something like myspace for a week, and i know that that's the case with most of our generation. we're so dependant on our day-to-day basis, to the point where when something changes, we won't accept it. why couldn't i try harder to be a vegetarian.
sorry if this is a little scattered. i just wanted to write down my thoughts.
so kids, advice time? is it worth trying to be a veggie again? besides obvious health benefits, (look into where your meat products come from) and a test of self-control, maybe it could help me get closer to God. let me know what you think.
and treat your ears, go listen to rachel's: here here here!
night all.
Jamison.
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the other day i entertained the idea of living on spinach leaves and water and the Word for a few weeks. wanna try it?
not really. i do to much physical stuff at work to not eat food.
ah, shalom. i had a ridiculous (good) conversation about shalom last night.
basically, we can eat meat and live well because most of the world does not live well. in fact, most of the world works, and dies, so we can keep our comfortable notions of home.
and, i don't think thats shalom. shalom is when everyone has enough, not when we feel good about ourselves.
i'm often saddened by the fact that birds and animals run away when we try to get near them, and wonder why that is. i brought this up with a friend of mine, a fantastically intriguing fellow, and he suggested (or i understood him to suggest) that perhaps it's partly due to animals having a heightened sensitivity to danger (instinct?), and that perhaps they can see through us in a way, sense our inner turmoils that we unknowingly project. humans are actually pretty pathetic at hiding things. that can be traced back to Adam too.
grrraymo makes one post, and blows my mind in ways i never thought it could be blown.
i seriously love you graymo.
ah, graeme i like this..because i think i believed that without knowing it...i can't even say anything because it makes me excited in imaginary ways and i sound like a crazy person! but thanks for sharing that!!
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